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A Jewish family is gathered around the table during a Passover seder in their home in Vilna.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 16457

A Jewish family is gathered around the table during a Passover seder in their home in Vilna.

This was the family's last seder together before WWII. Pictured from left to right are: unknown; Fruma Katz; Basia (Friedman) Katz; Chana Mina and Feivel Friedman; Mayer Katz; Chaskiel Katz and Theodore Friedman.

Basia, Mayer and Fruma survived the war in Theresienstadt. Chava Mina and Feivel Friedman hid behind the false wall of a fireplace, prepared by their son-in-law, Meyer Katz, but were discovered during the liquidation of the small ghetto. Theodore Friedman's mother, Chana Szapiro, and her two children were shot in Ponary. Friedman himself was deported by the Soviets in 1940 to a labor camp in Archangelsk.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.